Triple-S
Launched in December 2008, Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) is an initiative that seeks to identify sustainable approaches to water delivery and access by departing from project-based, one-off and stand-alone implementation of water systems. It is a six-year multi-country learning initiative that aims to contribute to the realisation of indefinitely sustainable water services delivered at scale. In collaboration with select national partners, Triple-S will support a paradigm shift at the operational level for decentralised service delivery and will bring about a re-appraisal of the design and planning mechanisms of development assistance to the rural water supply sector.
Triple-S Briefing Note (November 2009)
16 Nov 09
"A Way Forward - From Projects to a Service Delivery Approach" - Get introduced to the entry points of the Triple-S initiative; its innovative and dynamic approach to change in water delivery service; its pilot countries and national partners in this learning initiative; its working mechanisms; and its management approach. This briefing note demonstrates progress in the thinking behind Triple-S and how its team attempts to constitute and organise itself around getting the initiative off the ground in time for the conclusion of the initiative's inception phase.
Factsheet Triple-S
09 Jun 09
IRC started a new learning initiative to improve water supply to the rural poor: Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S).The idea is to develop replicable, country-specific models for sustainable rural water services in pilot districts in Ghana and Uganda while catalysing the changes in sector behaviour necessary for the models to be widely applied at national and international levels. More information can be found in the factsheet.
PRESS Release: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to pilot new model to improve rural water services
14 Apr 09
The Hague – 14 April 2009. The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has launched a six-year initiative to improve sustainability of rural water supply for some of the world’s poorest people, by reshaping the way that these services are provided.
Tackling sustainable water services at scale
15 Jan 09
Supporting people in poor rural communities to achieve sustainable water services is one of the most important, difficult and neglected challenges of development. Of more than 1 billion people estimated to live without access to improved water services, 900 million live in rural areas. After three decades of concerted effort, many of the poorest people in the world still live with unreliable and unsafe water, putting health at risk and diverting their efforts to improve family income into finding enough water to meet daily necessities.
IRC is starting a new, six-year Sustainable Services at Scale project
20 Nov 08
IRC is starting a new, six-year Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple S) project, which will identify, develop and test decentralised models for the delivery of sustainable rural water services in two developing countries.
